San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-09
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 9. 1887.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES

The prOhibtlOnists have the main
floor this year. They will be either In
the garrett or down in the cellar next
year.
THE democratic grip on protection
Sam ia very much the grip OF fright
ened cOolie or a tigers tail. The I'M
solved problem belng-is it safer to
hang on or let go?
ALL Ireland will regret the retirement
OF Gen. Butler from his post in that
country. He is not brute, and cannot
push coercion.
The Jones tragedy In the Dallas court
house, mention of which was found In
ysterday's telegram briefs, will wind up
with charge OF adultry against the
dead, and q plea of insanity for the lv-
ing.
KANSAS continues to find wealth In u
hole. A salt vein at Ellsworth, Kansas,
has been bored into l55 feet and the bot
tom has not yet been reached. The de-
pOsit is pure rock salt of great strength
and pronounced the best yet discovered.
The Laredo youths are fooling with
plays with its first mouse. II a genuine
rat should heave In sight, wouldn't
there be a sCamper.
THE enterprising citizen who sees a
bonanza in newspaper libel suit has
struck Fort Worth and laid his graphing
Irons OF the Gazette sancIum to the
tune Of $4,000. The libel laws Of this
state were framed to encourage such
idiOCy.
The legality of the suppression of the
Irish national league will come before
the high court of the English people be
fore long. When it does, the COndcmra-
ton of that act will be instant and IN
mistskable.
HAGGARD is running good second to
Rev. 4. Dewitt Talmage as q patent at
traction for stuffed club news journals.
"SOlOmOn's Mines" She" 1T" etc,
have knocked Brother Talmage out in
more than one round.
The FlOresvile Chronicle charges
san Antonio with the failure of the Gal
weston News to reach the metropolis Of
Wilson ccunty on time, What sins are
tot laid 10 the charge of the Alamo
city, have not yet been committed.
The official count of the Prohibition
ballots takes place at Austin on We'd
nesday next. Greer county petitions
for special meeting OF the state legIs-
lature. These two facts have no neces-
snry cOnsectiOn.
The axe has fallen at last and Pinker-
ton, the detective, is in the tolls He
has been indicted along with McGarigle
and Col. Heakey, Of Chicago. for con-
spiracy. The grand jury has been very
slow to move in PinkertOn's case, but
better late than never.
The sO-CaIled democratic Journals
which at the beginning of the prOhibi-
tlOn campaign whined loudly about the
non-partisan nature of the fight, are
still screaming Themselves hOarse over
what they now term q democratic vic
tory. The genuine democracy make no
such claims, only the hybrids.
THERE Is hope for the mugwump, who
shows signs OF returning penitence.
George William Curtis has pulled down
the curtains and battened the matches of
his lips. George William evidently in
tends to do some thinking before be
slOps over again.
The reading out Of Pennsylvania Ran
dali is SO long delayed that the free
trade journals are upon the anxious
seat. They will be more anxious before
Randall retires. The Carlisle crowd are
nj present In the attitude of prospective
mOurners.
SxTY-FIvE pupils In one school In this
city denied enrolment because there
WAS no room In the building for them
Some steps should at once be taken to
supply additional school accOmmoda-
lions for the children Of this city. The
present condition OF things lie not credit
able to the city.
The medical congress at Washington
selects Berlin as the next place OF meet
ing, in 1890. The paper on incubation
for yellow fever was considered so i'm
portant and the facts so conclusive that
a resolution was adopted asking ade-
quate appropriations from the several
civilized governments for carrying such
incubation into effect.
The British government have made a
start in coast fertilization on the Allan
tic seaboard and Halifax is being put in
to state of complete defence. This
port is to be made the great coaling
station for the British fleet in North At
lantic waters, and the dry dock OF Der.
muda will be removed to the mouth Of
the ST. Lawrence. John b. proposes to
make Canada a more important de-
pency of the crown than heretofore, and
to bring her somewhat pronounced re-
publican ideas under improved and
strengthened mOnarchiOal influences.